Re: [naviserver-devel] Upload Progress

[Zoran V. <zv...@ar...>]

Am 31.12.2005 um 18:20 schrieb Vlad Seryakov:

> Another possible solution can be, pre-allocating maxconn upload  
> structs and update them without locks, it is integer anyway, so no  
> need to lock, 4 byte write is never innterupted, usually it is 1  
> CPU instruction(true for Intel, maybe not for Sparc).

Nope. Need locking even for integers. I've seen crazy things...

OTOH, I'm not that concerned about the locking if it is short-lived
and not frequently done. I believe the "not frequently done" is the
hardest thing to judge.

Zoran